Let a sequence of binary (zero–one or failure–success) trials ordered on a line. We consider runs of successes of length at least equal to a fixed number. The statistics denoting the size (length) as well as the starting and ending positions of the minimum subsequence containing all such...

We present new Stata commands for carrying out exact Wilcoxon one-sample and two-sample comparisons of the median. Nonparametric tests are often used in clinical trials, in which it is not uncommon to have small samples. In such situations, researchers are accustomed to making inferences by...